I believe that the last name of Anna or Hannah Barbara was Bracht. Elizabeth Bracht was the second wife of Cyrus Harreld's grandfather John Peter Harrold Sr, so we know the Bracht family was around them at this time period.
The name Bracht Americanized to Brock, just as Höroldt became Harreld, Harrold Heroldt did. The only spelling I see for Herold is on the baptism records which were likely written by one person in the same German church. All of the grave stones and death certificates spell it Harreld, so I am inclined to spell it that way.
In 1770 his father moved his family west to Westmoreland Co, Pa. to the Harrold settlement in Hempfield Township. Here Peter met and married Elizabeth Baum, May, 1777 in the Harrold Church. They had 10 children. Elizabeth died in 1826 and Peter married Catherine Bracht.
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